John+Dupont

After California legalized [|abortion]on demand in 1970, a Texas company began selling abortion referrals and air fare. Twenty-year-old Kathryn Morse was one customer. Kathryn was admitted to Bel Air Memorial Hospital in LA County on September 1, 1972. (Until //Roe v. Wade//, California abortions were performed in hospitals, and many hospitals opened specializing in abortion.) John Dupont initiated a [|saline]abortion on her. Kathryn dveloped a 102 degree fever, then expelled the dead baby just after midnight on September 3. Kathryn's blood pressure rose, she went into shock, and was pronounced dead by Dupot at 9:40 AM. An autopsy found [|sepsis], and gangrene of the ovary.

Seventeen-year-old Kathy Murphy went to [|Inglewood Women's Hospital] in Los Angeles County for a [|safe and legal abortion] on August 24, 1973. During the days after her abortion, Kathy suffered breathing problems and became semi-conscious, so Inglewood staff trasferred her by ambulance to Centinela Hospital on September 7. Later that night, Cetinela transferred Kathy back to Inglewood, where John Dupont pronouced her dead at 1:20 on the morning of September 8. The autopsy found that Kathy had died of [|sepsis] from the abortion; her cervix and uterus were infected, and her cervix covered with greenish-black pus. Other women who died after abortions at Inglewood include [|Belinda Byrd], [|Cora Lewis], [|Lynette Wallace], and [|Elizabeth Tsuji].